The design and development of complex products invariably involves many actors who have different points of view on the problem they are addressing, the product being developed, a...
We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
We analyse query length, and fit power-law and Poisson distributions to four different query sets. We provide a practical model for query length, based on the truncation of a Pois...
We describe an entirely statistics-based, unsupervised, and languageindependent approach to multilingual information retrieval, which we call Latent Morpho-Semantic Analysis (LMSA...
We describe our participation in the 2009 CLEF-IP task, which was targeted at priorart search for topic patent documents. Our system retrieved patent documents based on a standard...